[OSM-talk] Problems with Osmarender

[Ben Robbins]

This doesnt seem to be the problem.  There are already a few spots that I 
had made ways without really knowing why. They didn't/don't render.  Just to 
check I made another and copied the data that was on the section that does 
render,  and it didnt render.  (I did this on a few different road types)

Also A couple of questions have come to mind.  If there is a single segment, 
how do I group that?.

Do all the segments on the way HAVE to share the exact same properties?  
e.g. If one street has houses at some points along it, will I have to split 
the set of segments into a group of ways according to where the houses 
are/are not?

Thanks

Ben




From: Etienne <80n80n at gmail.com>
To: "Ben Robbins" <ben_robbins_ at hotmail.com>
CC: talk at openstreetmap.org
Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] Problems with Osmarender
Date: Sun, 24 Sep 2006 22:17:31 +0100

On 9/24/06, Ben Robbins <ben_robbins_ at hotmail.com> wrote:
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>Cheers for the reply, but i think it leads me onto my next question, wich
>is
>what exactly are ways, and how do I do them?
>
>I have made all the roads in the area im trying to render 'highway=xyz''.
>Some are still blank in towcester though because i orignally left
>residental
>ones blank, but i will change them as soon as I'm clear on what this
>problem
>is.
>
>I only use JOSM.  I haven't used the online editor for about 5 months


A way is a group of connected segments.  Rather than adding a tag to each
segment in turn, you can make a group of segments into a way and then add
the tags just once to the way.  Each road, or section of road if it is very
long, should be a way.

In JOSM ways are coloured blue.  Segments are coloured green.  Type W to
select the way making tool and then click on each segment in turn that you
want to group together into a way.

Etienne



Ben
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>From: Etienne <80n80n at gmail.com>
>To: "Ben Robbins" <ben_robbins_ at hotmail.com>
>CC: talk at openstreetmap.org
>Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] Problems with Osmarender
>Date: Sun, 24 Sep 2006 22:06:00 +0100
>
>Ben
>I've just had a look at the Towcester area.  It looks like you've been
>very
>busy - well done!
>
>The new version of Osmarender does not render segments any more.  This is
>to
>encourage people to tag their roads as ways.  This is the main reason why
>you are not getting anything out of Osmarender - all you have is segments,
>no ways.
>
>The other problem, which you would have had, even with the previous
>version
>of Osmarender, is that quite a few of your segments do not have a highway
>tag.
>
>Make each of your streets into a way and as a very minimum add a highway
>and
>name tag to each one.  Then you'll find that Osmarender will start to give
>you some nice results.
>
>BTW you might find that this would be a good time to start using JOSM for
>editing, it is a lot quicker than the applet (and anyway the applet isn't
>working tonight because the tile server is down).
>
>Etienne
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>
>On 9/24/06, Ben Robbins <ben_robbins_ at hotmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> >I seem to be having a problem rendering everything in osmarender.  I'm
>not
> >saying this is because of the new things, cause it was doing this before.
> >It must be something to do with what I'm doing.  This image should be
> >dencely filled with all different road types, footways, tracks
> >etcetc.  The
> >osm file was 5 meg, and there isnt 5 meg of data here.
> >
> >http://i57.photobucket.com/albums/g226/ben_robbins_/osmarender.png
> >
> >Does anyone know what I'm doing so wrong?
> >
> >If you need to check out the area/taggin etc, search in OSM for
> >'towcester'.
> >   Next to none of that town renders for me also.
> >
> >Thanks
> >
> >Ben
> >
> >p.s.  The OSM and CC images seem to appear to one side of the map square,
> >wich would mean cutting them out and placeing them on the map, to enshore
> >these images still apear on renders.  Could they not just sit inside the
> >render square?
> >
> >
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